Could have sworn I saw a post somewhere a couple of days ago to the effect that the C-69 would allow a stripped-down version of the COTS passenger-carrying experience, and would also be right for cargo operations. Made it sound a bit like the rough equivalent of the Super Guppy. But now I'm having trouble tracking it down. Anyone else see it? I don't think I imagined it, but given my acute state of Connie anticipation, you never know...

EDIT: Ah, yes, here we are. It was in the comments thread for the Connie promo video on YouTube. A2A posted this: "The simulation will come with the C-69 repaint and cut down passenger stuff for anyone wanting to fly military or cargo style. And yes, we think she looks great in olive drab too.﻿"

So there's the C-69 alternative Connie experience to look forward to as well.

KLM was a launch customer for the L-049, with six aircraft in the initial order. You can see one in the A2A video - it's in the black-and-white photo of passengers disembarking. Metal finish and "The Flying Dutchman" legend above the windows. Several of their 049s wound up with Capital Airlines in the US, along with some ex-BOAC examples.

TWA (two examples in addition to the one seen in the video - the "Transcontinental Line" paint for the prototype's record-setting flight, and a later white-top example)El AlATF (Aero Transport Flugbetreibgeselshaft, of Austria)Eastern ("The Great Silver Fleet" finish of 1946)Capital AirlinesImperial AirlinesBritair East AfricaBOAC (Balmoral, G-AHEM, an all-metal finish, earlier than the white-top seen in the video)California Hawaiian AirlinesPan American (all-metal and white-top)CCA (Compania Cuban de Aviacion, a Pan Am affiliate in a similar white-top paint)Panair de Brasil (all-metal and white top)Falcon Airways (a UK charter company)American Overseas AirlinesAeronaves de MexicoAmerican Flyers AirlinesDeltaModern Air Transport (a US charter airline mainly handling Defense Department contracts)KLM (Flying Dutchman, all metal)Quisqueyana Aerovias (a Dominican charter company)Royal Air BurundiAir FranceParadise Airlines (Bahamas)Pacific Air Transport (A US charter company)BraniffLAV (Venezuela)

And that's without including the military and private examples.

A few of these were fitted with the longer radome nose, so some artistic license is needed. Nevertheless, that's quite a haul of 049s, without anyone's even having to pull in the 649/749 liveries that I'm sure we'll be seeing too.

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